(22938) Brilawrence Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 10 October 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Brian Robert Lawrence (b. 1989) is a finalist in the 2007 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for his mathematics project. He attends the Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland.Naming citation (20070303/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Brilawrence is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Brilawrence is 3.41 au from the Sun and 3.36 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 22938 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 TS173 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 4.63 km (#11,372 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0990 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.13 |
| Orbital period | 5.70 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.19 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.69 – 3.69 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.157 |
| Inclination | 2.69° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.71 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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